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Seminars

Database training and seminars may be offered from time to time by vendors. All staff and students are welcome to join in.

 






Digital Sources for HONG KONG HISTORY

Join Senior Product Manager Masaki Morisawa in this session where he will guide researchers and students on how Hong Kong History can be explored through the various government documents, historical newspapers, and other primary sources available through Gale Primary Sources.

Examples of archives:

China and the Modern World series
  • Hong Kong, Britain and China (CO 129)
  • IImperial China and The West (FO 17)
Nineteenth Century Collections Online series
  • Asia and the West
  • Maps and Travel Literature
Historical Newspapers
  • The Times (London)
  • Illustrated London News

And much more!

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Click here Digital Sources for HONG KONG HISTORY 07 November 2023
Tuesday 
12:30 - 13:30 Mr. Morisawa Masaki Seminar Room, G/F Main Library  click here to download ics file





Inspec supports research in Physics & Engineering to accelerate innovations at HKU

The session will consist of four parts.

In first part, the Inspec content coverage and the uniqueness of its content will be introduced.

In second part, the Inspec Thesaurus and expert indexes will be demonstrated by search cases, with a focus on how to conduct a precise and efficient search by using the numerical and chemical indexes on Engineering Village platform.

In third part, the Inspec Analytics will be introduced and how to use the subject analysis tool to search and analyze the research trend. HKU relevant research case will be searched as an example at the end, to share how to narrow down the search results step by step and navigate the most relevant records.

The session will end with Q&A.

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Click here Inspec supports research in Physics & Engineering to accelerate innovations at HKU 20 October 2023
Friday 
12:30 - 13:30 Mr. Thomas Sun (Inspec Specialist, IET) e-Learning Lab, G/F Main Library  click here to download ics file





Visualizing the Humanities: Gale Digital Scholar Lab

Today, advances in digital humanities allows scholars to make use of exciting new tools to cast wide-ranging nets into this vast ocean, helping to identify macro trends and patterns that would have been impossible to find via traditional methods. Gale Digital Scholar Lab is a new intuitive platform that allows uninitiated users to make full use of cutting edge text mining technology intuitively without the need of any programming language or special IT skills beyond the mouse and the keyboard. Join Senior Product Manager Masaki Morisawa in this session where he will guide users on how to conduct statistical and natural language analysis on thousands of historical texts such as newspaper backfiles, government documents, and much, much more!

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Click here Visualizing the Humanities: Gale Digital Scholar Lab 09 November 2023
Thursday 
12:30 - 13:30 Mr. Morisawa Masaki Seminar Room, G/F Main Library  click here to download ics file